So it's about privacy, not about actual restrictions? There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world. There never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had.
We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea.
Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere.
As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women.
It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If this does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
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Are you sure it's a good idea to be exposing mainstream users to software that's still in its infancy? Once they have the idea that Open Office isn't any good, they'll probably stay with the idea - even after it's improved to Office 97 quality.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world because there never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had.
We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea.
Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere.
As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women.
It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If this does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
It is disappointing to see how the Athlon gets trounced in FPU intensive benchmarks.
Unless you're a major AMD stockholder (which you should state), stuff it. They're both corporations. AMD isn't a "good" corporation and Intel isn't a "bad corporation" so quit your partisan whinings.
I'm sort of new to this linux thing, but there's this directory on my new install of Debian 3.1 called "/usr/bin". It was all messed up when I first went in there. None of the files had descriptive names, and it took me like an hour to figure out they were executables, since none of them had.exe on the end of them. Furthermore, whenever I double click them, they just pop up a command prompt for a few seconds then go away.
I was gonna delete them, but I got kinda afraid that they might be my kernel, so I fiugred I'd ask. It's ok to delete this stuff, right?
The problem is that this does the opposite - WINE takes Linux out of the running because there is now less of an incentive to write OPEN applications. The Doom 3 Linux port should be out soon if I have my way.
If your myopia is less than (-)5 diopters, consider eyetacs/intracorneal rings instead. If it's worse, don't bother with laser eye surgery, because aside from all of the risks, at higher levels of myopia (and heavily in any hyperopia) there is a lot of regression (especially with PRK but even with LASIK).
The question is, are prizes of 10 to 30 million USD enough for corporations to spend that much or more developing space tech? Would it be cheaper than NASA developing the same things in-house? Or would the prize money be better spent on NASA projects? I'd rather my tax dollars not go for just corporate handouts.
Long ago we needed a separation between Church and State. Now we need a separation between Parent and State. Parents need to take some responsiblitity in raising their children and stop blaming every form of media that doesn't fit into their package of morals.
Drugs became illegal in the US because of these exact types of stupid legislators. Now, it's part of our culture. Walk down the street and you can find zillions of people who actually believe that pot kills.
Same with video games. Once they ban them, it's easy to "educate" people with PR campaigns. Eventually, hardly anyone will remember the days when a 10 year old could play space invaders. Zillions of people will actually believe that videogames cause violence. Truth won't matter. Science won't matter. Research won't matter. They will believe it because they don't think about it, and are afraid to take a minority stand.
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Yeah - what gives? I don't see Linux mentioned anywhere in the article.
So it's about privacy, not about actual restrictions? There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world. There never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had. We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea. Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere. As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women. It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If this does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
Are you sure it's a good idea to be exposing mainstream users to software that's still in its infancy? Once they have the idea that Open Office isn't any good, they'll probably stay with the idea - even after it's improved to Office 97 quality.
Err, how exactly does this control or restrict you? You don't have to go there, and there's nothing stopping you FROM going.
Instead of windows.slashdot.org ?
Maybe Linus should start making hardware for Linux, so that it would finally Just Work.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the world because there never was one to begin with. You can't lose something you never had. We live in a web of interconnecting lives. Our actions have long-reaching effects on others, as theirs do on ours. The idea that a single man may live as a hermit in the midst of the civilized world is both absurd and problematic for being such a popular idea. Privacy doctrine in this country has existed for one purpose: shielding domestic violence from public scrutiny. The whole private-sphere/public-sphere distinction arose so that some men could prevent other men from interfering in what they manage to pull off behind closed doors. Marital rape and worse violences have always been justified as located in the mystical private sphere. As you cling to the arbitrary notion of privacy, you're doing little more than empowering men to rape and torture women. It's time we got rid of the private/public distinction. No one ever had any actual privacy; merely artificially imposed curtains that conceal malicious actions by some against others. If this does anything to undermine public respect for such a morally bankrupt institution as privacy, then I'm all for it.
Xbox news should be posted to games.slashdot.org
Can I just `emerge` this service pack?
It is disappointing to see how the Athlon gets trounced in FPU intensive benchmarks.
Unless you're a major AMD stockholder (which you should state), stuff it. They're both corporations. AMD isn't a "good" corporation and Intel isn't a "bad corporation" so quit your partisan whinings.
Why don't they just check HTTP referrers?
I'm sort of new to this linux thing, but there's this directory on my new install of Debian 3.1 called "/usr/bin". It was all messed up when I first went in there. None of the files had descriptive names, and it took me like an hour to figure out they were executables, since none of them had .exe on the end of them. Furthermore, whenever I double click them, they just pop up a command prompt for a few seconds then go away.
I was gonna delete them, but I got kinda afraid that they might be my kernel, so I fiugred I'd ask. It's ok to delete this stuff, right?
She can't even spell "excerpt". Dumb cunt!
The problem is that this does the opposite - WINE takes Linux out of the running because there is now less of an incentive to write OPEN applications. The Doom 3 Linux port should be out soon if I have my way.
at http://batman.touchedmyjunk.com
the consortium? Most music, I would imagine, falls outside of it.
If your myopia is less than (-)5 diopters, consider eyetacs/intracorneal rings instead. If it's worse, don't bother with laser eye surgery, because aside from all of the risks, at higher levels of myopia (and heavily in any hyperopia) there is a lot of regression (especially with PRK but even with LASIK).
Notably, Prescott chips with NX support aren't yet shipping.
It's not a Windows specific fix. It's NX support (so that data marked as such won't be executed) and Linux can benefit from it as well.
Doesn't sound like the CEO is doing his job!
is that if a project horribly fails it, NASA doesn't have to pay! No risk!
The question is, are prizes of 10 to 30 million USD enough for corporations to spend that much or more developing space tech? Would it be cheaper than NASA developing the same things in-house? Or would the prize money be better spent on NASA projects? I'd rather my tax dollars not go for just corporate handouts.
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Long ago we needed a separation between Church and State. Now we need a separation between Parent and State. Parents need to take some responsiblitity in raising their children and stop blaming every form of media that doesn't fit into their package of morals.
Drugs became illegal in the US because of these exact types of stupid legislators. Now, it's part of our culture. Walk down the street and you can find zillions of people who actually believe that pot kills. Same with video games. Once they ban them, it's easy to "educate" people with PR campaigns. Eventually, hardly anyone will remember the days when a 10 year old could play space invaders. Zillions of people will actually believe that videogames cause violence. Truth won't matter. Science won't matter. Research won't matter. They will believe it because they don't think about it, and are afraid to take a minority stand.